Book launch at Atlanta History Center

The debut event for “Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America,” the companion volume to the Barbecue Nation exhibition at the Atlanta History Center (on view through Sept. 29, 2019). Barbecue reception at 6 p.m. (with barbecue from one of Atlanta’s best, DAS BBQ), program at 7 p.m. Book will be available (although the official pub date from University of Georgia Press is June 1).